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Menufacturing – Get ready to enhance your brand

Menufacturing is a complete vertical operation specializing in design, product development, embellishments, apparel production, merchandising, and distribution.

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History of Fashion: 1920’s – 1940’s

Take a journey through the 1920s-1940s, exploring the evolution of fashion and its influence on the world around us.

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Eagle Fabrics Textile Tour

Eagle Fabrics is a wholesale fabric company that prides itself in fulfilling the knitting, dyeing, finishing, and printing needs of the apparel manufacturer.

Industry Insights

6 Fashion Manufacturing Trends to Watch

Hop on board – the fashion train is speeding up and these 6 manufacturing trends are shaping the future of fashion production.

Fashion Industry Production Factory Tour
Interviews, Out & About

FASHION INDUSTRY FACTORY TOUR: VERTICAL AUTHORITY

Vertical Authority is a skilled production factory that is willing and eager to take on exciting and challenging projects.

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Education

The History of High Heels

Move over Paris runways, leggy glamour and glittery fashion statements: all that we now associate with high heels. Give way to humble beginnings of wearing high heels.

Interviews, Out & About

TMD Out & About: Design Knit – Part 1

Design Knit is a family owned knitting mill specializing in designing and manufacturing knit fabrics for contemporary, athleisure, sportswear and loungewear markets.

Interviews, Out & About

TMD Out & About: Label & Label Inc.

Located in Los Angeles’ fashion district, Label & Label is a family owned, multi-generational business that focuses on all your label needs, including care labels, size tabs, hangtags and much more.

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Industry Insights

17 Luxury Fabrics You Need to Know

A luxury fabric is a fabric of the highest quality, usually less available and are used by first-rate designers to create elegant essentials for every wardrobe. They mostly come from natural fibers and or the latest and most innovative materials.

Interviews, Out & About

TMD Out & About: Classy Dye

Classy Dyeing & Finishing is an exceptional dye and wash house located in Los Angeles, CA. Classy Dye has been providing dyeing and finishing services since 1997.

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Interviews

Our Founder’s Story

The Modern Directory was formed between business partners, Jarret Levin and Theresa Metzler, to solve the problems they had within their own jobs.

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Interviews

Meet the Founders Part 1: Jarret Levin

Introducing Jarret Levin, Co-Founder of The Modern Directory, a superstar designer, product development genius, and an all-around unicorn when it comes to fashion.

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Interviews

Meet the Founders Part 2: Theresa Metzler

Introducing Theresa Metzler, Co-Founder of The Modern Directory, a spectacular sourcer, prolific production expert and a maven at all things custom. She makes the impossible possible.

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Tips & Tricks

5 Ways to Market Your Fashion Business

With clever marketing strategies, you can stand out from the crowd and connect with your target audience.

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Fall/Winter 2022 Fashion Trends

Refreshingly unique, utterly chic, and drenched in vivid colors that excite and delight; the top Fall/Winter 2022 trends are certainly far from quiet.

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